1955 Guatemalan 25-centavos

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1955 Guatemalan 25-centavos

Beitrag von villa66 » Di 13.10.15 06:03

A 1955 Guatemala 25-centavos in .720 silver, 27mm in diameter and weighing 8.33g. The type, which was in production from 1950 through 1959, got an uneven start, but hit its stride in 1952 and the coins dated 1955, like this one, were the most numerous of the series.

These coins were authorized by a 1948 decree that retitled this denomination as a 25-centavo piece. It had been a ¼-quetzal since the currency reform of ’25—with the one exception of the 1943 issue produced in the U.S.—but after the war the coin had reverted to type as a ¼-quetzal from 1946-49. The 1950 switch to “25-centavos” was permanent, however, or so it seems these many years later.

The quetzal was still pegged to the American dollar at the time, and as was the case with the coinage of its northern neighbor, when this 25-centavo piece was coined in 1955, Guatemalan silver had about a decade to run.

The “indigenous woman” pictured on this piece is—to my eyes anyway—one of the more distinctive coin portraits of the South American ‘50s, and always—again, to my eyes—suggests the intensely bright colors of the National Geographic magazines and film travelogues of those days.

This “indigenous” (as it was styled in the legislation) image was successful enough that it survives on Guatemala’s 25-centavo pieces to the present day, although it’s true that it has been much modified during the more than six decades since its introduction.

Guatemalan silver coinage is long gone, of course, and this 1955 25-centavos piece would have departed circulation years ago. It would have been sitting around, unused for maybe a quarter-century or so, when it was finally demonetized on 6 January, 1997.

:) v.
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